mod_rewrite compile error

[liqweed]

Hi,

How do I activate mod_rewrite on Apache? I'm having problems with URL rewrites in .htaccess file. I keep getting Internal Server Error (500) while trying to access any page. The Apache (v2.0.49) error.log file says:

[alert] [client 127.0.0.1] C:/Webs/xampp/htdocs/cpg-nuke_cvs/html/.htaccess: RewriteRule: cannot compile regular expression '^([a-zA-Z0-9_=+-\\%]*)\\.html'

which corresponds with the RewriteRule in .htaccess:

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RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_=+-\%]*)\.html index.php?name=$1

To get there I uncommented

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LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

but I'm not sure that's enough. before I did I used to get:

[alert] [client 127.0.0.1] C:/Webs/xampp/htdocs/cpg-nuke_cvs/html/.htaccess: Invalid command 'RewriteEngine', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration

The regular expression should be fine, as it's a part of CPG-Nuke code. How do I work this out?

The server I'm running is the XAMPP v1.42 configuration.



Help?